It’s not as if these DHS employees write the laws. Whatever your feelings about this, hassling the people who are doing what they’ve been ordered to do so you can get an amusing video to post is just being a dick.
I totally agree. This smartass is just making things difficult for people that are trying to protect our borders. It’s not like he was randomly pulled over on the highway – he intentionally went to their checkpoints – repeatedly. I’d laugh my ass off if he unknowingly had a tail light out.
Actually, I think the point is that these checkpoint are in fact at random spots on the highway and not at any border crossings. Don’t be so quick to throw your rights away for the sake of convenience.
Maybe Rosa Parks should have just quietly moved to the back of the bus because she was hassling a bus driver and other passengers who didn’t “write the laws.” Living in AZ and traveling to CA quite frequently, I can tell you that a lot of what happens at these checkpoints could easily be classified as unconstitutional. By my standards, there’s a larger purpose to videotaping and sharing a premeditated protest than to just “get an amusing video.”
Comparing this jackwagon driving his own car and Rosa Parks being told to sit in the back of a public bus because of her race is an insult to the civil rights movement.
No, I didn’t watch the entire video. I watched about 3 minutes of this guy repeatedly being a smart ass to law enforcement before I turned it off. If there is some grand lesson he wants to teach, it should be up front. I’m not sitting through 15 minutes of assholery on the outside chance of an epiphany at the end.
Sure what he did was legal, but it’s disruptive and uncalled for. It reminds me of a little kid waving his finger in front of his brother’s face repeating, “I’m not touching you. I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m not touching you. You can’t do anything about it.”
There is nothing amusing about this video at all. It’s down right scary. My feelings about this are that we the people are the ones being hassled. Anyone not making a stink about this and just giving up their rights is being a dick.
So it’s true, you don’t have a legal obligation to answer their questions.
BUT technically, operating a motor vehicle on a public highway is a privilege, not a right. They can detain you – or rather, they can prohibit you from continuing on in that vehicle. They would presumably need some excuse other than “dicketry”, but that’s a poor comfort when you’re sitting in your car in 110F heat.
I’ve been through a bunch of these, and I answer their questions, because I’ve been the guy who has to ask a customer a dumb question because his boss makes him. And when that customer gives me a hard time about it, I’m unlikely to hang up and think, “Wow. I’m glad he was an asshole about that. We both really benefited from that exchange.”
I wonder how many of these guys were raging about the brown invasion five or six years ago?
One could argue that there’s a difference between being a law enforcement officer and being a boss, not to mention a difference between being a customer and being a citizen, although I’ll grant you that making that argument seems to be getting more and more difficult. But maybe we should still try.
I bet the reaction of some people would be different if these random checkpoints(set up through out the state not just at the boarder) were about guns.
Comments
19 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20120703agents-stir-outcry-by-detaining-former-arizona-governor-castro.html
The former governor of Arizona, aged 96, was detained at one of these checkpoints. In the middle of summer. Without air conditioning.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
The last one is epic. Asking the border guard if they’re an American citizen.
Like or Dislike:
1 
0
This is fucking AWESOME.
Like or Dislike:
0 
1
It’s not as if these DHS employees write the laws. Whatever your feelings about this, hassling the people who are doing what they’ve been ordered to do so you can get an amusing video to post is just being a dick.
Like or Dislike:
8 
14
I totally agree. This smartass is just making things difficult for people that are trying to protect our borders. It’s not like he was randomly pulled over on the highway – he intentionally went to their checkpoints – repeatedly. I’d laugh my ass off if he unknowingly had a tail light out.
Like or Dislike:
5 
8
I agree as well.
Like or Dislike:
2 
6
Actually, I think the point is that these checkpoint are in fact at random spots on the highway and not at any border crossings. Don’t be so quick to throw your rights away for the sake of convenience.
Like or Dislike:
7 
1
A lot of what happens at checkpoints is exactly because of race. Which jackwagon are you talking about? Did you watch the entire video?
Like or Dislike:
3 
1
Maybe Rosa Parks should have just quietly moved to the back of the bus because she was hassling a bus driver and other passengers who didn’t “write the laws.” Living in AZ and traveling to CA quite frequently, I can tell you that a lot of what happens at these checkpoints could easily be classified as unconstitutional. By my standards, there’s a larger purpose to videotaping and sharing a premeditated protest than to just “get an amusing video.”
Like or Dislike:
7 
3
Comparing this jackwagon driving his own car and Rosa Parks being told to sit in the back of a public bus because of her race is an insult to the civil rights movement.
Like or Dislike:
5 
5
No, I didn’t watch the entire video. I watched about 3 minutes of this guy repeatedly being a smart ass to law enforcement before I turned it off. If there is some grand lesson he wants to teach, it should be up front. I’m not sitting through 15 minutes of assholery on the outside chance of an epiphany at the end.
Sure what he did was legal, but it’s disruptive and uncalled for. It reminds me of a little kid waving his finger in front of his brother’s face repeating, “I’m not touching you. I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m not touching you. You can’t do anything about it.”
Like or Dislike:
2 
3
There is nothing amusing about this video at all. It’s down right scary. My feelings about this are that we the people are the ones being hassled. Anyone not making a stink about this and just giving up their rights is being a dick.
Like or Dislike:
15 
1
oh yeah, THIS is the issue.
go back to sleep america
Like or Dislike:
3 
2
So it’s true, you don’t have a legal obligation to answer their questions.
BUT technically, operating a motor vehicle on a public highway is a privilege, not a right. They can detain you – or rather, they can prohibit you from continuing on in that vehicle. They would presumably need some excuse other than “dicketry”, but that’s a poor comfort when you’re sitting in your car in 110F heat.
I’ve been through a bunch of these, and I answer their questions, because I’ve been the guy who has to ask a customer a dumb question because his boss makes him. And when that customer gives me a hard time about it, I’m unlikely to hang up and think, “Wow. I’m glad he was an asshole about that. We both really benefited from that exchange.”
I wonder how many of these guys were raging about the brown invasion five or six years ago?
Like or Dislike:
1 
0
One could argue that there’s a difference between being a law enforcement officer and being a boss, not to mention a difference between being a customer and being a citizen, although I’ll grant you that making that argument seems to be getting more and more difficult. But maybe we should still try.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
the first person in this video is a complete idiot (surprise!) who goes by the name Steven L. Anderson – here is his youtube channel…
http://www.youtube.com/user/sanderson1611
tea-tards yeehaw!
Like or Dislike:
2 
0
Pastor Steven L. Anderson …bring a christian -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ZlBqTnsWs
he also demonstrates his “checkpoint soul-winning” in this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFk2SQfoBio
Like or Dislike:
2 
0
FIFY: Top Dickhead Checkpoint Refusals
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
I bet the reaction of some people would be different if these random checkpoints(set up through out the state not just at the boarder) were about guns.
Like or Dislike:
1 
0